San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-08-13
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Watervleit, Mich.
The Volunteer wins the Boston Her
aid cup.
The Irex Ia declared winner in the
English Jubi ee yacht race.
Gold shipment TO America from Eng
land S25O.OOO.
Shell explosion at WaxhOlm Fort,
Stockholm, kills 10 and wounds many.
Ferdinand means business In Bulgaria,
powers or no powers.
Canada has another insurrection
brewing 10 the northwest.
Boulsnger kilograms condolences to
Madame Kalkoh.
Farmers in the vicinity OF Wayne, Ind,
are busy fighting forest fires.
Georgia senate passes the $40, 900 wine
room license. 1t will become law.
The Cameron banquet in London was
a very enjoyable affair.
Train runs of the bridge at Albany,
Ca, and 10 are hurt, none killed.
Blaine is quietly visiting places OF in
terest in and around Cork.
A COW on the track at Victor wrecks
an engine and kills fireman Mclean.
The reported removal OF Admiral Luce
is denied at Washington.
Judge John Hines, OF Refugio county,
Is dead and buried.
John Toplif, Cleveland, sues his
brother for infringing on his patent.
Mslcom Lindsey, Houston, fatally shot
by his brOther-in-law, Riesner, eX-chief
OF the fire department.
Eighty-four dead and ll5 mangled,
crippled and moaning victims, is the
latest report from Chatsworth.
Forest fires are raging in Hertogen-
wald, visible from surrounding cities
and viewed by crowds.
Chicasaw and Cherokee quarrel and
the Cherokee gets used up, in the Ma
ton.
A regular ice storm, killing two per-
sons and damaging crops, at Peaville,
MINI.
Starr county defeats prohibition $50 to
Is and carries all the other amend
ments.
Dan Hoskin's confesses to the murder
| Of his step-daughter ut Franklin, La,
and the neighbOrs hang him.
The heroic St Louis firemen, who lost
their lives on duty, buried with apprO-
| pirate honOrs.
Two Cleveland, Ohio, toughs GRIMM
ally assault a young girl and are In
limbo.
District Assembly No. u X. Of L..
sends q socialist delegation TO the Min
neapolis convention.
Chattanooga is all excitement over the
discovery OF natural gas only seven
miles from town.
The foreign cOnsuls will not attend
Ferdinand's reception and Austria pro-
tests vigorously against his move
ments.
Salisbury's speech at the lord mayors
banquet shows that he would like to
| proclaim the Irish Land League but
fears the result.
Mendoza insane hospital, Wisconsin,
with its 502 inmates narrowly escaped
burning. Loss $4,000 on barn and con
| tents.
| Great fire at Pittsburg. Penny Press
building Plttsburg Dispatch, Masonic
Temple and other costly structures burn
| ing.
| Giant powder explosion six miles
across the bay from San Francisco shakes
the whole city, kills one Chinaman and
wounds ten others.
Unknown tramps robbed section
hand, near Louisville, KY, and bound
him to the rails. He was rescued just as
a train approached.
A bad Mexican, Juan Rodriguez, n
| Brownsville, wounds three men and
cleans out ranch before he rests quiet
ly in the bat cave.
The Organist was opening the organ
and the sexton was Juggling the bel
rope, when a 2000-pOund bell In st
st. PauPs cathedral, Syracuse. came
down the other evening, breaking two
floors in the belfry and twisting organ
pipes like straws. On the bellows II
rested where bell ought to rest.
Unless it is matched at San Francisco
the new Baltimore and Ohio barge John
w. Garrett, just launched at Whining
ton, is the largest steamboat in the
United States. Her length ia 366 feet
Two boilers to carry the steam will be
placed on the guards outside, leaving
the whole boat for the storage of cars.
There is a mysterious person, known
as the Second Plunger," who visits The
Monmouth Park races. He has a min
lsterial cast of cOuntenanCe, talks to NJ
one, dresses quietly and bets with al
most unvarying success. His winnings
this season amount to over S35, 600. He
lost $4,000 on one race last week, bu
cleared $1,000 on the race which fol-
lowed